Comments on: Calvary Chapel Distinctives: The Priority Of The Wordhttp://www.modernpulpit.com/2010/10/04/calvary-chapel-distinctives-the-priority-of-the-word/
The modern pulpit from a reforming layman's perspectiveTue, 29 Mar 2016 15:43:52 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.22By: Anonymoushttp://www.modernpulpit.com/2010/10/04/calvary-chapel-distinctives-the-priority-of-the-word/#comment-1043
Sun, 15 Jul 2012 19:21:19 +0000http://www.modernpulpit.com/?p=364#comment-1043I left Calvary Chapel Melbourne nearly 2 yrs. ago. The model of the multi- site and their new logo is part of Rick Warren’s Purpose Driven Plan. Go to the library and check out the book “The Purpose Driven Church”. They are on the growth movement track and have been for some time. There are many issues with that church. As I started to look online for various resources and bible studies to help me at home, it was then I realized how badly they handle the Word of God in that particular church. There were many other issues as well. But, they are “off” in many areas. They have made the bible all about life principles and not about Christ. I could go on forever with the issues, no accountability for finances etc…we left and feel in some sense, the nearly 10 yrs. we attended there was a waste of valuable time. I’ve had to re-learn everything. I never realized how off I was in my belief systems. It has been eye opening to say the least. When I started to read books by men like Charles Spurgeon, Martin Luther, and the early church fathers, along with my bible, I was horrified to see how far the church has drifted from sound doctrine and theology. I pray you find a church you can call home, but I don’t even recommend anyone to attend there. I’ve lost friendships in the church for taking a stance on these issues.
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Wed, 06 Jul 2011 18:00:02 +0000http://www.modernpulpit.com/?p=364#comment-974Tom- There are lots of churches doing this. I think it’s a combination of the celebrity pastor mentality and a very low view of what church actually is.
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Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:52:49 +0000http://www.modernpulpit.com/?p=364#comment-973I go to Calvary chapel in Melbourne, Fl. I have a problem when they say one church many places. They have one senior Pastor who teaches using video text to other 3 chapels instead of the local Pastors or teachers teaching.There is something wrong with this and I am asking others to comment.
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Fri, 06 May 2011 07:05:50 +0000http://www.modernpulpit.com/?p=364#comment-911It’s strange. Having been and still currently in, though not wholly, a CC church, I too appreciate the reverence I gained for the Word yet at the same time am starting to find I can’t stand listening to passages being so undertreated for the sake of “getting through the book”. Not to mention straight up mistreatments. It’s a wierd place to be in having been a part of CC for so long.
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Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:04:06 +0000http://www.modernpulpit.com/?p=364#comment-833I am appreciative of the foundation CC has laid for me in my early years, but at the same time there was just as much junk that to this day still haunts my theology. They came about at the culmination of some pretty strange thoughts and doctrines in the history of the Church. I really believe there is no reason why CC couldn’t change and become something like what Sovereign Grace is to the reformed community. Unfortunately it would require they, as CJ did, admit to having been wrong on quite a few accounts. Imagine how much MORE that would do for the BoC if they did.

Thanks for the link suggestion. Done!

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Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:01:33 +0000http://www.modernpulpit.com/?p=364#comment-832CC has done so many wonderful things for the BoC, but the “line upon line, precept upon precept” teaching method isn’t one of them. Sure, they touch upon each verse of the bible (maybe, as Pastor Smith himself states) but it could not be any more ironic for CC leadership to use that passage from Is. 28 to support this method. It’s like trying to refute Christ’s resurrection from the Gospels! Randy, for this post you should link back to your 10/30/09 post on MP about this. You spell out the problem in detail there so I won’t here, but if any CC’ers are still “listening” to this thread, read *all* of Is. 28 — at least down to v. 13 — to understand the problem. It really is mind boggling.
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Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:00:24 +0000http://www.modernpulpit.com/?p=364#comment-831Having been in this denomination for almost 6 years I can attest to the fact that the scriptures that cause the most controversy among Christians are not taught from the pulpit. It scares me to think that there are Christians out there that feel they must censor God. It scares me even more when I realize how many of us sit under this censorship.
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